"Sérénité"

"Sérénité"
Paint, mixed media and tulle, 28"x25”, Dec 2004

"Sérénité" Comments

I was pregnant when I did this collage and I wanted to recreate the peacefulness that you experience. The blossoms are made of different colours and patterns to express that peacefulness can be found in everyone.

Belle

Belle
Paint, mixed media, 16 ¾ x 20 ¾, Nov 2004

"Belle" Comments

Elisabeth Taylor is here to embody perfection. Desire for perfection can put a distance between people (circle around Elisabeth Taylor’s). Green and silver are here to reinforce the coldness. A round shape is usually synonymous with warmth and protection, while here it stands for coldness. Perfect beauty is contrasted with imperfect cutting out and ripped up paper. The cosmic scene shows 2 different worlds. At the top, the perfect people in a high position that evolve in high spheres, and at the bottom, the others.

Geimi

Geimi

"Geimi" Comments

When a girl becomes a maiko, an apprentice geisha, she takes a professional name (geimei) to symbolize her new life. These names are flamboyant and antiquated, and often have the feel of the 1700's and 1800's, the heyday of the geisha and kabuki. Geishas’beauty evoke mystery. They wear a mystic veil that creates a distance between them and the others. That’s why I covered her with a piece of blue tulle. It underlines the contradiction between hours of preparation to provoque desire without being provocative herself.

"Blossom"

"Blossom"
Golden paint, mixed media, tule, cardboard, 24x36", 2007

"Sitting on a cloud"

"Sitting on a cloud"
Tulle on collage on canvas

My Roots

My Roots
Paint, mixed media, gold leaf and tulle, 24" ½ X 19" ½, Jan 2006

"My Roots" Comments

Mixing a Moroccan mosaïc with Hebrew letters. Mixing a black and white Yemenite woman with pink and orange. Mixing circles and squares. Mixing very precise details and fuzziness. Mixing emptiness and fullness. By mixing these symbols I am crossing the roads of my roots. I was born in France, my parents were born in Tunisia and my grand-mother was born in Italy. I am a Sepharadic Jewish woman living in New York City.

Fish Tank

Fish Tank
Paint, cardboard, mixed media, gold leaf, feather and tulle - 20"x24" - Feb 2006

"Fish Tank" Comments

I wanted to make a very cosmic aquarium where cactus play chess, where seaweed form a mosaic, where feathers tickle the moon. It is a fish tank without fish. This piece was named by my daughter.

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TULETTE BIOGRAPHY

Tulette began her artistic exploration as a singer-songwriter. Jazz and Rock are her genres of choice. Her work as a musician has always been a form of assemblage and at some point she decided to translate her "tunes" to the canvas and to ceramics to see how they would evolve. To date, Tulette continues to interweave her different art forms deriving inspiration from the rythms of her favorite musicians, ranging from Sarah Vaughan to Soundgarden.
When composing her collages, Tulette finds movement in the static. She plays with transparencies to find a different way of 'reading' different materials (vintage magazines from all around the world, cardboard, gold leaf, etc...). In addition to that, she uses the tulle as a filter, which could be seen as a pixelization of the image underlining what is discrete and not obvious.
Her work is a symphony about love and harmony. The pink is the color of love. The butterflies on the warm grey canvas have an infinite beauty, which one could contemplate forever. The tulle, symbolizes sacred fidelity, emphasized by the lotus flower add strength to her message. The collages communicate peace and well being. She likes to play with the movement of the eye as it reads her work. It is as if the spectator is reading a Tarot card of good fortune.
Her artwork invites the spectator into a moment of harmony and offers a different way to approach the world. She entices her viewers to search for wisdom, balance and serenity throughout her many layers, the most personally revealing of which, is perhaps, the one meant to mask - Tulette's tulle.